Congratulations to Marcos Villeda-Hernandez, Ben Baker and Christian Romero for their work covering the potential of chemical reactions as both positive and negative pressure sources for use in soft robotic pneumatic actuators.
New review detailing significant advances in decarbonising methanol production with direct electrochemical techniques entitled “Can We Decarbonise Methanol Production by Direct Electrochemical CO2 Reduction?” from collaborator Alice Sheppard, currently undertaking her PhD in the Fermin Group at Bristol. Contributions from ex-Faul Group member Veronica Del Angel Hernandez.
Congratulations to Xue for taking home the award for best student talk entitled “Quantitative solvent selection toolkits for functional materials preparation” in the Theory Guided Discovery of Energy Materials symposium at CSC2023.
Congratulations to Xue Fang on giving her first international talk focusing on her powerful solvent prediction toolkits in Vancouver at the 2023 Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition. Excellent job.
Charl continued his short trip to Kyoto University, where he visited the world-leading research laboratories of Prof Hiroshi Kitagawa. This visit was an opportunity to renew the long-standing interactions (interrupted by COVID!), and to explore new opportunities for joint symposia, student and staff exchanges, and collaborative research activities. Here Charl is with Prof Kitagawa, and his group (in front of the Clifton Suspension Bridge!).
Charl is currently visiting colleagues and potential collaborators in Japan. His short visit started with a wonderful visit at the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba in Japan. He was hosted by Dr Takashi Nakanishi (Group Leader, Frontier Molecules Group), and had the pleasure of having three generations of Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces together: Ken Sakaushi (2013–2015), Charl (2001–2004) and Takashi (2007–2010).
Yubing joins the Faul Group as a visiting student from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China for a year. Her research focus is on the design and applications of conjugated microporous polymers and their application in the removal of heavy metal ion pollution in wastewater. Welcome!
Back cover of Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 33, Issue 13 illustrating concepts from Xu et al. In the image, the amorphous gel is seen altering and shifting within the non-uniform electric field generated by the point electrode. The electric field lines, depicted by coloured lines, converge at the point electrode.
Charl is currently in India, and gave a plenary lecture at the exciting conference organised by Prof Pravin Ingole, Department of Chemistry, IIT Delhi!
Great to be sharing results from the group on CMPs for CO2 conversion, water purification and related topics!
Excited to announce Basiram and Dr. Baker‘s latest openly accessible article in Adv. Mater. entitled “Selective CO2 electroreduction from tuneable naphthalene-based porous polyimide networks” detailing exciting new metal-free materials for CO2 capture & reduction.
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